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Fifty Weird Years of “Saturday Night Live”
It is customary for a person in a situation like mine—preparing to hold forth on “Saturday Night Live”—to divulge which performers would make his ideal cast. The gist of...
Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred
A hundred years ago, The New Yorker emerged from the Jazz Age dreams of two young journalists, Jane Grant and Harold Ross. Fresh from their time in Paris during...
An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
Back in my footloose twenties, I lived for a year in Costa Rica, where I worked at a school in the central highlands and worked even harder, by reluctant...
An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting
Early in Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” from 2001, a young girl sits on the floor, considering how strange it is to have a body. She looks at her hand:...
California Dream Business: Your Step-by-Step LLC Guide
Starting a California LLC can feel like a big task, but it’s totally doable if you break it down into steps. From picking the right name to understanding the...
The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”
On paper, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency room—the setting of the new Max drama “The Pitt”—is the kind of place you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. The waiting...
Finding a Home Among the Punks
Gail Butensky’s photographs of alternative and punk rockers, now on show at I.C.P., find poignancy in the scene’s dissonance. Source link
Court Nightmare? How to Skip Probate Entirely
Probate can be a real headache, and it’s something most folks want to dodge if they can. It’s not just about the red tape; it’s also about the time...
Independents’ Days: Standouts from Sundance 2025
I’ve never been to Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival takes place, but for years I’ve been going to Sundance in New York, thanks to press screenings...
Goings On Turns a Hundred
Shauna LyonEditor, Goings OnIn anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of The New Yorker, I’ve been looking back at old issues, starting with the inaugural edition, dated February 21, 1925,...
